The Tours Chronicle
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
Peter Spencer is the new Tours manager
“This is a club with real history, and I did not have to think about it for long.” The new manager takes charge with every slate wiped clean.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Luc Schmitt breaks a bone — 35 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market6 Mar 2028
Rodrigo Samarra is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tours is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Sébastien Perrot signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sébastien Perrot and Tours agree another 3 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Marcel Pons in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tours this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Sébastien Perrot falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Market No place for Olivier Dumas in the plan
- Market The Robert Paris story refuses to die
- Market Jacques Philippe leaves for nothing